dere

See also: derë and de re

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰō(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Middle Low German dere, Old High German tara (“damage, injury”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-Germanic *darjaną (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰō(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /

2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Pronunciation

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

Alternative forms

• der

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

• Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːrə

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/
• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/

Verb

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dere	ddere	nere	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.